"In Flash you embed fonts through the library or by setting a dynamic textfield to embed a particular font."
Errr... thanks. But how come my masks don't work when I use device fonts ??? :-) "In that case, wrong list: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/"; Actually, even though I'm using Flexbuilder as a compiler, I'm definitely asking an Actionscript question. I'm looking to do something using Actionscript syntax and all of the available examples employ Flex syntax. "But I'm pretty sure google will return something useful when searching for "AS3 Embed font metadata"" Actually, thank you. That query returned the one example that answered my question: http://www.joangarnet.com/blog/?p=415 The thing I wasn't getting was that you need to directly associate each embed statement with a variable. That should have been obvious, but wasn't. [Embed(systemFont="Arial", fontName="ari", mimeType='application/x-font')] public var f2:Class; [Embed(source="assets/ORG_V01_.ttf", fontName="myUnicodeRangeFont", mimeType='application/x-font', unicodeRange='U+0041-U+005A,U+0061-U+007A,U+00F1')] public var f3:Class; Thanks, Jim Kremens _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
